At the Alaghodaro/Inauguration 2020 Thanksgiving Service, held at the New Festival Hall, Government House, Benin City, I revealed the plans by my administration to recruit 725 new professionals into the state’s civil service.

Within a month, the recruitment of a new generation of professionals would commence in earnest.

By early next year, we would have completed the process.In the next four years, my administration would focus on strengthening the civil service, which is the engine room of government.

We will commence intensive training early next year for 30 to 45 days, by which time most vacancies will have been filled in the public service.

After this, we will announce political appointments and get political actors to join us to begin to work on our manifesto to fulfil our promises to Edo people.I thanked God for a peaceful and successful election and inauguration. Work starts on Monday.

We have announced the appointment of Secretary to the State Government.

We are expanding the transition team and they have 60 days added to the initial timeline to complete all aspects of their work.I will be summoning meetings with traditional leaders, leaders of churches and other community leaders in the state.

Together, we will design a new security scheme. We can’t wait for one central policing system to take care of the policing needs of Edo people.

We have already graduated the first batch of 877 of the 2000 community constables that have been trained by the Nigeria Police Force.They would be deployed to various communities to work with local community arrangements to ensure effective coordination and keep criminals out of the state.